Assignment - VPN Technologies and Issues

The purpose of this assignment is to review existing literatures on important VPN technologies and issues and write an article.  The articlemust be specific to the given topics, use appropriate examples and detail of the topic given to develop a review paper. After the assignment, students are expected to learn not only the knowledge and current technical aspects of VPN but also research, data collection, analysis and writing skills, which are very important and help them for study.

Assignment Description

Tasks:

There are two parts to this assignment, i.e. part A and part B.

A. Write a review article for the following topics depending on the last digit of your ID: select Topic 1 if it ends in an 'odd' number or Topic 2 if it ends in an 'even' number.

B. Presentation

Part A description:

1. Topic1 - VPN Replacement Technologies

VPN has some major drawbacks and problems such as the ones described below. There have been attempts to resolve the issues, and some technologies are being deployed as alternatives, e.g. Microsoft DirectAccess, SoftEther VPN etc. Review alternative options to resolve and overcome the problems of legacy VPN.

• Congestion, latency, fragmentation, and packet loss
• Difficulties with compliance and troubleshooting
• Encrypted traffic does not compress
• Lacks repeating patterns
• More bandwidth-intensive than clear-text transmission
• Connectivity requires high availability

2. Topic 2 - VPN Security Issues

Fundamentally, VPN is known as being secure and safe;however, there are still many issues with regards to security aspects. A simple Google search of 'VPN security' displays 2.8 million results. Search the internet for relevant articles/papers, and compare and analyze what these security issues are and what solutions they propose.

Part B description:

Prepare slides (between 10 - 15 slides) for presentation during the lab class. Read the instruction attached carefully. For example, you must submit the presentation file in Moodle so that you can be allocated a session during a lab class for your presentation.

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar